Active Directory Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Active Directory Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Active Directory Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 424 478
Rank change year-on-year +74 +54 -71
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Support 45 13 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.057% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.060% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 7 22
10th Percentile £202 £127 £123
25th Percentile £225 £164 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £215 £160
Median % change year-on-year +181.40% +34.17% -8.43%
75th Percentile £608 £376 £175
90th Percentile - £488 £248
UK median daily rate £605 £233 £170
% change year-on-year +160.22% +36.76% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,731 21,611 29,386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,452 15,051 20,618
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,272 1,106 1,459
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Active Directory Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Active Directory Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Support in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Support in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Support in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Support in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Support in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Support in the UK excluding London

Active Directory Support
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +53 36 £605 +393.88% 3
Midlands +20 3 £210 -2.33%
East Midlands +18 3 £210 -2.33%
South West - 3 £225 -
North West +27 2 £168 +19.64%
North of England +24 2 £168 -14.10%
East of England +13 1 £200 -57.89%
Active Directory Support
UK

Active Directory Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Active Directory Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Active Directory Support in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 37 (82.22%) Azure
3 33 (73.33%) SC Cleared
3 33 (73.33%) Security Cleared
4 32 (71.11%) DV Cleared
5 31 (68.89%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (66.67%) Windows
7 25 (55.56%) Windows Server
8 23 (51.11%) Microsoft
9 22 (48.89%) SCCM
10 21 (46.67%) Entra ID
11 20 (44.44%) Firewall
11 20 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 19 (42.22%) ITIL
12 19 (42.22%) Microsoft Intune
12 19 (42.22%) Social Skills
13 18 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 18 (40.00%) Bicep
13 18 (40.00%) ARM Templates
13 18 (40.00%) Log Analytics
13 18 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (40.00%) RBAC
13 18 (40.00%) CI/CD
13 18 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 18 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
13 18 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
13 18 (40.00%) Privileged Identity Management
13 18 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (40.00%) Analytics
13 18 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Active Directory Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (82.22%) Azure
2 31 (68.89%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (46.67%) Entra ID
4 18 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 18 (40.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 20 (44.44%) Firewall
2 18 (40.00%) DHCP
2 18 (40.00%) DNS
3 4 (8.89%) Ethernet
3 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) JIRA
General
1 19 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.44%) Banking
2 2 (4.44%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.00%) PKI
1 18 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (66.67%) Windows
2 25 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 18 (40.00%) Linux
3 18 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 18 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (26.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) ITIL
2 18 (40.00%) Agile
2 18 (40.00%) Analytics
2 18 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (40.00%) DevOps
2 18 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 18 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (40.00%) Log Analytics
2 18 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 18 (40.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 18 (40.00%) RBAC
2 18 (40.00%) Release Management
2 18 (40.00%) Service Management
3 4 (8.89%) Ticket Management
4 2 (4.44%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (2.22%) Case Management
5 1 (2.22%) Customer Service
5 1 (2.22%) Incident Management
5 1 (2.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) Bicep
1 18 (40.00%) C#
1 18 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 18 (40.00%) VB
1 18 (40.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 33 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 32 (71.11%) DV Cleared
3 18 (40.00%) Degree
3 18 (40.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
System Software
1 45 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 18 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 18 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (48.89%) SCCM
2 19 (42.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 18 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 18 (40.00%) SCOM
3 18 (40.00%) WSUS
4 4 (8.89%) Autotask
Vendors
1 23 (51.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) Cisco
2 4 (8.89%) Remedy
3 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow